EUAN GILL RUNNER-UP IN RAIN AT TAIN

SANDY SCOTT WINS  RPB BAIN TROPHY  

By ROBIN WILSON

After dominating the North of Scotland boys' championship earlier in the season when providing the champion and three other teenagers in the top six, Inverness juniors had to give way to Sandy Scott (The Nairn), pictured by Robin Wilson, at Tain on Saturday in the confined North District boys' championship.

Scott, who turned 16 at the end of June and has been capped at Scotland boys and Scottish schools level, won the R P B Bain Trophy for the first time with excellent rounds of 71 and 73.

The North's sunny dry spell came to an end at Tain and the players had to contend with incessant rain throughout the day when Scott's first round 71 was by far the best of the morning scores. 

When most of the field struggled with the wet rough on the outward half, scratch player Scott matched Tain's outward par of 35 with two bogeys, the 1^st and ninth, and two birdies, the 4^th and seventh.  

 His inward 36 was compiled from one birdie, the 12^th, and two closing bogeys to lead by four from early starter Lee Findlay (Orkney) a 75.

Finlay got washed out in the second round rain while in round two Inverness's Euan Gill was one below par after an outward 34.  He got his card to three under par after twelve holes but a score- wrecking double bogey 7 at the 13^th and a bogey at the shortest par four on the course the 346 yard 15^th brought him back to level par 70 for second place.

Inverness's Keiran Mackay improved from 79 to 73 to take third place on 152 and combining with Gill (146) and clubmate siblings, Cameron (159) and Rory (164) Franssen, the quartet lifted the Emslie Team Shield for Inverness with a combined total of 621.  

SCRATCH SCORES
CSS 72 72

144 Sandy Scott (The Nairn) 71 73

146 Euan Gill (Inverness) 76 70                          

152 Kieran MacKay (Inverness) 79 73 

153 Isaac Alexander (Moray) 77 76
155 Thomas Bell (Forres) 79 76

156 Michael Schinkell (Kirkwall) 77 79

158 Gregor Munro (Reay) 78 80       

159 Cameron Franssen (Inverness) 85 74, Ewan MacPherson (Fortrose and Rosemarkie) 80 78

160 Alasdair Ross (Fort William) 78 82, Lorne Ross (Fort William) 79 81, Andrew Moir (Elgin) 79 81

164 Jamie Mackintosh (The Nairn) 82 82, Jack Hart (Grantown on Spey) 87 77, Rory Franssen (Inverness) 77 87

165 Graeme Bethune (Moray) 87 78.

166 Gregor Miller (Forres) 83 83, Euan Munro (Reay) 80 86                                             

 UNDER-16s

SCRATCH

155 Thomas Bell (Forres) 79 76

160 Lorne Ross (Fort William) 79 81.

160 Andrew Moir (Elgin) 79 81                            

 HANDICAP

140 Padraig McNeil (Fort William) (14) 71 69

143 Logan Gillies (Loch Ness) (13) 77 66

146 Jack Hart (Grantown on Spey) (9) 78 68

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